Last modified: 2008-08-13 02:58:31 UTC
In analogy to "Special:Contributions/XY" and "Special:Emailuser/XY" it'd be good to use the form "Special:ListUsers/XY" instead of the more complex (and uglier) "Special:ListUsers?username=XY".
This won't work for usernames who match named groups, and it will be a little difficult to differentiate between user and group this way. Another method may be feasible, but not possible this way due to named groups.
This should be easily possible, as is done for Special:Contributions/newbies If the parameter is lowercase and matches a rights group, assume it is the group. If it doesn't match or starts in upperacse, assume it is a username.
This is theoretically doable given that users can't currently have lowercase usernames, but as a long-term solution it's a bad idea (since lower-case usernames are likely to become possible at some point in the future). However, we could easily distinguish group name URLs by using a character for those that's never going to be acceptable in a user name. For instance, Special:Contributions/[sysop] would be unambiguous. There are probably less ugly-looking options too. Reopening for further consideration.
Added a new syntax in 39269. Special:Listusers can now be called in three ways: - Special:ListUsers/GROUP - if GROUP is a valid group name; the old syntax. - Special:ListUsers/USER - Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER '*' and 'user' can be used as a GROUP for all users. Thus, a user named 'sysop' can be unambigously specified by e.g. 'Special:ListUsers/*/sysop'.
Oops, there should've been an 'r' in front of that - r39269 - so you can click to see the revision in question. :)
